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Davy Kestens

Personal blog · davykestens.becareerbusiness

Davy Kestens's personal blog at davykestens.be covers career and business. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Why I'm an asshole”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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7mentions?
5HN people?
2011–2012first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Davy Kestens's self-improvement posts, including one on why he is an asshole about 9-to-5 workers and a followup explaining his jealousy after hate mail. The comments say little beyond that.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Davy Kestens is a Belgian serial entrepreneur with a track record of building and scaling technology companies across Europe and the United States.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Why I'm an asshole
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-16
  2. Why most people dream and only some do: The Go-Getter theory
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. bhoung · 2012-04-09Recommends
    http://www.davykestens.be/self-improvement/why-im-an-asshole His followup post is interesting also. After receiving hate-mail for putting down 9 to 5'ers, he explains that he is jealous...

    Comment linking /self-improvement/why-im-an-asshole

    on “Why most people dream and only some do: The Go-Getter theory”
  2. Submitted Why most people dream and only some do: The Go-Getter theory as a story · 81 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Why Most People Dream and Only Some Do: The Go-Getter Theory as a story · 12 points

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  4. Submitted Just do it as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Thank You, Google as a story · 4 points

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  6. Submitted Why I'm an asshole as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Results Only Work Environment vs. Company Culture as a story · 2 points

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